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Mayara LR Freitas

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Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Organism:multiple species· 1

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivMar 27, 2014

3D mapping of disease in ant societies reveals a strategy of a specialized parasite

Raquel G Loreto, Simon L Elliot, Mayara LR Freitas…·David P Hughes

The paper shows that 100% of Camponotus rufipes ant colonies in Brazil are infected by the fungal parasite Ophiocordyceps unilateralis s.l., which exploits social immunity by manipulating worker behavior to die at the colony entrance.

DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0103516

multiple speciesexperimental assay

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